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-Enforce commit message, branch naming, author, and signoff standards —
-one policy, across your CLI, pre-commit, CI, and AI agents.
+An open policy engine for Git commit metadata — one versioned file, enforced everywhere.
[](https://pypi.org/project/commit-check/)
[](https://pypi.org/project/commit-check/)
[](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/commit-check-action)
[](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[](https://commit-check.com)
-
+
---
-## Why Commit Check
-
-**Commit Check** (aka **cchk**) is an open-source policy engine for Git commit
-metadata — commit messages, branch names, committer name/email, signoff, and
-more — helping teams keep a **consistent, compliant, and clean Git history**.
-
-Define your rules once in a single versioned config, and enforce them
-identically everywhere: on a developer's machine, in CI, and in AI-assisted
-workflows.
-
-It's a lightweight, open alternative to GitHub Enterprise
-[metadata restrictions](https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.11/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-rulesets/available-rules-for-rulesets#metadata-restrictions)
-and Bitbucket's paid
-[Yet Another Commit Checker](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211854/yet-another-commit-checker?tab=overview&hosting=datacenter),
-built for a modern DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code workflow.
+## What it looks like
+
+```text
+CC001 message check failed ==> updated the parser
+The commit message should follow Conventional Commits. See https://www.conventionalcommits.org
+Suggest: Use (): , where is one of: feat, fix, docs, ...
+Docs: https://commit-check.com/rules/#cc001
+```
+
+Every failure names a **stable rule ID**, the value that failed, what to do
+about it, and where it is documented — as text, JSON, a job summary, a PR
+comment, or an MCP tool call.
+
+## One policy, four places
+
+```
+ cchk.toml
+ │
+ ┌─────────────────┼─────────────────┬─────────────────┐
+ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼
+ your machine pre-commit GitHub CI AI agents
+ (commit-check) hook Action (MCP)
+ │ │ │ │
+ └─────────────────┴────────┬────────┴─────────────────┘
+ ▼
+ same rules, same verdict
+```
+
+Write the rules once. Every surface reads that same file, so a commit that
+passes on a laptop passes in CI — and an agent asking *"would this message be
+accepted?"* gets the answer your maintainers actually configured.
+
+## Quick start
+
+Nothing to configure to begin with: the defaults enforce Conventional Commits,
+Conventional Branch, and sane subject lengths.
+
+```yaml
+# .pre-commit-config.yaml — feedback while the message is still being written
+repos:
+ - repo: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
+ rev: v2.13.4
+ hooks:
+ - id: check-message
+ - id: check-branch
+```
+
+```yaml
+# .github/workflows/commit-check.yml — where it becomes a policy, not a suggestion
+- uses: commit-check/commit-check-action@v2
+ with:
+ message: true
+ branch: true
+ pr-title: true
+ pr-comments: true # needs permissions: pull-requests: write
+```
+
+Every rule and option is at **[commit-check.com](https://commit-check.com)**.
## The Commit Check family
@@ -45,26 +87,34 @@ built for a modern DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code workflow.
| [**commit-check-mcp**](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check-mcp) | Model Context Protocol server | Letting AI agents validate against your rules |
-## Key features
+## What it does not do
-- ✅ **Conventional Commits** & **Conventional Branch** enforcement
-- ✅ **Author** name / email validation with configurable patterns
-- ✅ **Signoff (DCO)** verification
-- ✅ **Rebase / merge-base** and **force-push** safety checks
-- ✅ **AI attribution governance** — detect or forbid AI-generated commit trailers
-- ✅ **One config** (`cchk.toml`), with org-level inheritance, shared across CLI, pre-commit & CI
-- ✅ **Job summaries & PR comments**, plus **JSON output** and **MCP tools** for automation and AI agents
+- It reads commit **metadata**, not your code. It is not a linter.
+- A pre-commit hook can be skipped with `--no-verify`, so only the CI check is
+ really a policy — the hook is there to save you the round trip.
+- Imperative-mood checking reads a word's *form*, so a subject led by a noun
+ that looks like a gerund (`fix: spelling in the docs`) gets reported.
-## Trusted & secure
+## Where Commit Check fits
-- 🔒 **SLSA Level 3** build provenance, with artifact attestation verified at install time
-- 🏢 Used by teams at **Apache**, **Texas Instruments**, **Mila**, and [many more](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check-action/network/dependents)
-- 📖 **MIT licensed**, actively maintained, and following [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) and [Conventional Branch](https://conventional-branch.github.io/)
+Commit metadata rules are usually behind a paid tier: GitHub's
+[metadata restrictions](https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.11/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-rulesets/available-rules-for-rulesets#metadata-restrictions)
+need Enterprise, and Bitbucket's equivalent is
+[Yet Another Commit Checker](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211854/yet-another-commit-checker?tab=overview&hosting=datacenter),
+a paid Marketplace app. Commit Check is the open alternative — and because the
+policy is a file in your repository rather than a settings page, it can be
+reviewed, diffed, and rolled back like anything else you version.
+
+- 🔒 **SLSA Level 3 build provenance** — verify any release yourself with
+ `gh attestation verify --repo commit-check/commit-check`
+- 🏢 Runs in repositories across **Apache**, **Texas Instruments**, **Mila**, and
+ [many more](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check-action/network/dependents)
+- 📖 MIT licensed, actively maintained, and itself following
+ [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) and
+ [Conventional Branch](https://conventional-branch.github.io/)
## Get involved
-We welcome feedback, bug reports, and feature requests from the community.
-
-- [Issues](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/issues) — bug reports & feature requests
-- [Discussions](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/discussions) — questions, ideas, and community conversations
-- [Documentation](https://commit-check.com) — guides, configuration reference, and more
+[Issues](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/issues) for bugs and feature
+requests · [Discussions](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check/discussions)
+for questions and ideas · [Docs](https://commit-check.com) for everything else.